JOB STRESS: AN OUTCOME OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Organizations are becoming more complex and competitive in today's era of globalization and technological advancements. There is tremendous pressure on the employees that manifests itself in job insecurity, less commitment, job dissatisfaction and job stress. There is a realization that the culture of the organization, to a great extent, addresses these issues. Employers recognize that the ‘happier' their employees are, the better will be their attitude towards the work, the higher their motivation and the better will be their performance. The same goes in the field of education. The present study focuses on job stress as an outcome of organizational culture of teacher educators in B.Ed. colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The study was conducted on a sample of 214 teacher educators. The study adopted the descriptive method of the correlational type. The results of data analysis exhibit that there is a moderate negative relationship between total job stress of teacher educators with their total organizational culture. Thus, more conducive the organizational culture, lower is likely to be the job stress of teacher educators. It was also found that among the dimensions of organizational culture, involvement, consistency and mission are the antecedents with the biggest negative effect on job stress. However, another culture dimension, adaptability has positive influence on the stress level of teacher educators